Pergunto-me de que cor serás tu quando vieres ao meu lado, pela avenida verde entre os raios de sol, cobertos de pólen, pousar-me a mão no ombro, em bicos de pés, sobre o meu cansaço inevitável. Terá então decorrido como disse hoje à Nô, o filme feito de liberdade e de honestidade, e não a peça hipergeométrica vivida do fosso para a sala do trono, do mercado para o meio do rio. Qual virá a ser a carta saída da manga então, para mediar os extremos de quem nasce e quem morre, e mesmo dos vivos não venha o azar ter ouvidos na hora errada? Não sei bem se andamos todos ao mesmo. Para mim, talvez ainda uma chama, talvez o limite das regras.
When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
- Henry David Thoreau -
Condensing fact from the vapor of nuance since 2003
12.5.06
11.5.06
Estranho mesmo, mas estranho que se farta, é o atropelo de desconversa quando a vontade é tripartida entre fundir, conhecer e contemplar. Deve ser por tal efeito que antecipamos uma amálgama incontornável, o jorro electroquímico entre sinapses - em suma blocos que encaixam. Se digo que te amo, a invocação tem rigor matemático.
Faz-se a paixão na simplicidade escrevendo a aço e safiras por cima de sensações intraduzíveis. Amaldiçoam-se, entre risos, as horas passadas em questiúnculas protagonizadas pelos rebanhos da dúvida. Abarca-se o mundo inteiro sabendo que o alcance desta descoberta não conhece expressão, vive fora do esquema. É só nosso e vai beber onde brotam segredos maiores.
Ringthane wrote:
Learning and inner growth should be promoted as an end in themselves, not to get a job.
Oliver wrote:
I agree, but 'fine words butter no parsnips'. I just believe that most people couldn't care less about inner growth, but rather worry where to get money from to buy stuff. Learning is only seen as a goal by those who are financially secure.
Or, with Brecht: Erst kommt das Fressen, und dann die Moral (first the food, then the morals). I'm not claiming that there are no exceptions, but to me this seems to be the general attitude.
Ringthane wrote:
That's exactly why I think we need to:
- eradicate money
- eradicate nationhood
- establish acracy preferrably overnight
- punish the ones who would establish the "dark path" again, e.g. technocrats, powermongers, criminals, ignorants (not nescient people); it's their right to be thus, as it is our right to exclude them of any communal improvements
- transcend the Santa Claus complex and other urban myths, like believing that there is enough humane quality to the species as a whole, that would enable any voter or trustee to mandate, rightfully and rationally, the exercise of power.
Oliver wrote:
I agree, but 'fine words butter no parsnips'. I just believe that most people couldn't care less about inner growth, but rather worry where to get money from to buy stuff. Learning is only seen as a goal by those who are financially secure.
Or, with Brecht: Erst kommt das Fressen, und dann die Moral (first the food, then the morals). I'm not claiming that there are no exceptions, but to me this seems to be the general attitude.
Ringthane wrote:
That's exactly why I think we need to:
- eradicate money
- eradicate nationhood
- establish acracy preferrably overnight
- punish the ones who would establish the "dark path" again, e.g. technocrats, powermongers, criminals, ignorants (not nescient people); it's their right to be thus, as it is our right to exclude them of any communal improvements
- transcend the Santa Claus complex and other urban myths, like believing that there is enough humane quality to the species as a whole, that would enable any voter or trustee to mandate, rightfully and rationally, the exercise of power.
10.5.06
Quando estás perante uma situação incontornável, se além das soluções canónicas só existe outra, que é tida por impossível, então não pensas; não ponderas, nem te medes contra a soma das tuas insuficiências e das feras do mundo. Não te interrogas se é real ou não. Apreende-la, e ages como se pudesse ser feito.
É tão verdade para que seja assim mesmo.
Até esgotar o coração.
9.5.06

It's not the red of the dying sun
The morning sheets surprising stain
It's not the red of which we bleed
The red of cabernet sauvignon
A world of ruby all in vain
It's not that red
It's not as golden as Zeus famous shower
It doesn't come, not at all, from above
It's in the open but it doesn't get stolen
It's not that gold
It's not as golden as memory
Or the age of the same name
It's not that gold
I wish this would be your colour
I wish this would be your colour
I wish this would be your colour
Your colour, I wish
It is as black as malevitch's square
The cold furnace in which we stare
A high pitch on a future scale
It is a starless winternight's tale
It suits you well
It is that black
I wish this would be your colour
I wish this would be your colour
I wish this would be your colour
Your colour, I wish
(Bargeld)
Above the Madhouse
Above a madhouse is strolling
a moonstruck moon.
A Shadow-man is walking around a white garden
absorbed in his sad chin.
As if in a kaleidoscope,
currencies, stocks were dancing before him
in a rainbow fire burning away.
An ex-banker, prisoner of papers
now strolling
with the moonstruck moon
behind the white walls of a madhouse.
This is freedom,
the horrible freedom
you have stepping behind the invisible walls
of expanded human consciousness,
which unfolds in a terrible
immensity.
-Srecko Kosovel
Above a madhouse is strolling
a moonstruck moon.
A Shadow-man is walking around a white garden
absorbed in his sad chin.
As if in a kaleidoscope,
currencies, stocks were dancing before him
in a rainbow fire burning away.
An ex-banker, prisoner of papers
now strolling
with the moonstruck moon
behind the white walls of a madhouse.
This is freedom,
the horrible freedom
you have stepping behind the invisible walls
of expanded human consciousness,
which unfolds in a terrible
immensity.
-Srecko Kosovel
5.5.06
Iucundum, mea vita, mihi proponis amorem
hunc nostrum inter nos perpetuumque fore.
di magni, facite ut vere promittere possit,
atque id sincere dicat et ex animo,
ut liceat nobis tota perducere vita
aeternum hoc sanctae foedus amicitiae.
You, my life, promise that this love
of ours between us shall be agreeable and last forever.
Great gods, arrange for her to speak the truth,
and to say this sincere and from the bottom of her heart,
so that it is granted us to continue all our life
this treaty of inviolable friendship.
Lov meg, du, mitt liv,
at vår kjærlighet skal vare i all evighet.
Store gudene, om hun bare snakker sant,
om hun sier dette i all ærlighet og fra hjertets bunn
så vi kan fortsette resten av livet
med vår hellig vennskapspakt
-Gaius Valerius Catullus-
hunc nostrum inter nos perpetuumque fore.
di magni, facite ut vere promittere possit,
atque id sincere dicat et ex animo,
ut liceat nobis tota perducere vita
aeternum hoc sanctae foedus amicitiae.
You, my life, promise that this love
of ours between us shall be agreeable and last forever.
Great gods, arrange for her to speak the truth,
and to say this sincere and from the bottom of her heart,
so that it is granted us to continue all our life
this treaty of inviolable friendship.
Lov meg, du, mitt liv,
at vår kjærlighet skal vare i all evighet.
Store gudene, om hun bare snakker sant,
om hun sier dette i all ærlighet og fra hjertets bunn
så vi kan fortsette resten av livet
med vår hellig vennskapspakt
-Gaius Valerius Catullus-
4.5.06
e hoje sem nada à flor
nada que nao seja primeiro
essencialmente para ti, porque
sabes bem que reduzes um sentido
à metade de todos os outros
a lisas fracções sem razão
porque hoje deixei litros
e litros de corpo na cama
porque hoje quis novamente
a pressa a fuga em frente o sol
no teu nome num caderno espalmado
com cordas, com teses
haydn
as mãos tornam-se o filme
as pétalas da história feliz,
Tu, glória eterna e uma mesa que dança.
nada que nao seja primeiro
essencialmente para ti, porque
sabes bem que reduzes um sentido
à metade de todos os outros
a lisas fracções sem razão
porque hoje deixei litros
e litros de corpo na cama
porque hoje quis novamente
a pressa a fuga em frente o sol
no teu nome num caderno espalmado
com cordas, com teses
haydn
as mãos tornam-se o filme
as pétalas da história feliz,
Tu, glória eterna e uma mesa que dança.
2.5.06

Pushing up on Carlisle Road into the seething shadows
Through the plastic visor – a hail of broken kerbstone
Fire-lit-faces, all the noise – so much hatred
What I remember thinking – I can’t believe this is happening
All I remember thinking
Came home four, four-thirty, Emma was waiting up for me
News chanel drone on the TV, her arms clasped around her knees
She looked up but said nothing
I went up to the kids bedroom, touched their sleeping faces
Wondered how I could protect them
Wondered how to protect them
(Sullivan 2005)
28.4.06
watching my birthdate fly
on a red led train marquee
under the octagonal gaze
of some otto or sergei
stasi henchman asleep
over yesterday's news
half expecting to find
something other than creole
acronyms over bluetooth
we are all finders
keepers lepers
leeches breeders
and the sun sets, never down
if your eyes come back at me
for lunch and lost maidenhood
wouldn't you say we're
not
getting old?
on a red led train marquee
under the octagonal gaze
of some otto or sergei
stasi henchman asleep
over yesterday's news
half expecting to find
something other than creole
acronyms over bluetooth
we are all finders
keepers lepers
leeches breeders
and the sun sets, never down
if your eyes come back at me
for lunch and lost maidenhood
wouldn't you say we're
not
getting old?
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